The Sweeney - Season 4

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Season 4Episode 160 min

Bait

Detective Inspector Jack Regan sets out to stop a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde.

Oct 19, 1978

Season 4Episode 860 min

The Bigger They Are

A wealthy entrepreneur is being blackmailed over activities he performed whilst stationed as a soldier in Malaya. He seeks assistance from two other former soldiers who had been involved, one of whom is now a senior police officer, the other now a security company owner/manager. The policeman attempts to stop Inspector Regan from investigating. The security company man hires mercenaries to persuade the blackmailers to desist.

Oct 26, 1978

Season 4Episode 960 min

Feet of Clay

Regan is asked to help a criminal from his past who's son has been kidnapped.

Nov 2, 1978

Season 4Episode 1060 min

One of Your Own

Jimmy Fleet and a friend con two businessmen into handing over some valuable diamonds. They are caught, but only after Jimmy managed to hide the diamonds. Patsy Kearney, a criminal who specialises in thieving off of thieves, becomes interested, as do the Sweeney. Sergeant Carter gets to do some time in prison in an attempt to gain Jimmy’s confidence.

Nov 9, 1978

Season 4Episode 1160 min

Hearts and Minds

Regan and Carter get caught up in a plot to prevent a foreign head of state from getting his hands on an experimental drug to treat his heart condition.

Nov 23, 1978

Season 4Episode 1260 min

Latin Lady

As Doctor Delacroix, an apparently respectable gynaecologist, is leaving his clinic on his way to the airport, he is jumped on by a gang of thugs in a car and robbed of his suitcase. He is initially reluctant to disclose the contents of the case, which turn out to be untaxed monies which he was hoping to smuggle out of the country. Regan’s investigations lead him to villain’s glamorous girlfriend Christobel Delgado, a Latin lady, but she is definitely not what she first appears to be.

Nov 30, 1978

Season 4Episode 1360 min

Victims

Regan and Carter are at the scene of a shooting where Sergeant Taylor has been badly injured. Carter discovers that Jimmy Park, one of Taylor’s informants was involved. Regan finds himself distracted from by Doreen Haskins.

Dec 14, 1978

Season 4Episode 1460 min

Jack or Knave

A security guard is murdered during a payroll snatch. The local police force under Chief Superintendent Canning have no luck in catching the robbers and Canning is reluctant to work with Regan when the Sweeney are called in, frequently clashing with him. When Regan apprehends all the gang without telling him, Canning is far from happy. Regan is accused of corruption nine years earlier and Canning, his contemporary, refuses to help him. Fortunately Carter finds someone who will, but the whole experience leaves Regan extremely bitter.

Dec 28, 1978